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Thank you, this was very useful! I recently started learning Japanese, and I think in English we are so used to stressing certain sounds in a word. This video was very helping in explaining 'pitch' with Japanese words and its helping me a lot with my pronunciation! :)
I’m glad to hear that! As English pronunciation is difficult for Japanese people, Japanese pronunciation is hard for English speaking people. I’ll make more videos to help you guys pronounce naturally. Thank you for your comment:)
Always wanted to learn a secound language, I've watched a few of your videos and I love your teaching style its super helpful for a complete beginner like myself
That's so cool! In my native language (Polish) we actually have very similar sounds, but I never could understand the concept of "Mora", which made it difficult to learn the language. Thank you for this video.
Hi, I tried to find out what kind of characteristics the Polish has and found your language very difficult. You even conjugate nouns! So interesting... I'm glad you understood the concept of mora. Thank you for your comment
For Polish speakers it's easy to pronounce i.e. sushi just the way it sounds in the original Japanese form. But in casual conversations you're not gonna hear words like "sushi" pronounced this way, instead it will be somehow English influenced version.
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Also Polish person here! We use the same sort of sounds for vowels, and our language has consistent pronunciation, unlike English. We can also pronounce つ, し and ち. For the latter two, we have both the harsher sh/ch sounds like English, but also softer si/ci like Japanese. The つ sound is literally spelled as cu in Polish. Yeah our c actually has a function that is not copying s and k like in English lol Our languages are VERY different, but the sounds are quite easy for us once we drop the bad habits from English. I studied Japanese for a very short while yeeaars ago, so I can't do much beyond reading hiragana and introducing myself haha
Beautiful and i appreciate your time to make this. I use for homeschooling and I love the way you explain. Infinite blissings & grand health for you and your family
Very helpful, however my search was for nigiri and this video came up; I was a bit disappointed it was not covered in this one. Do you have any of your videos that cover "nigiri"?? Thanx for these helpful videos!
I’m sorry, I don’t have a video that covers nigiri. The pitch accent of it is Low-high-high, but when you add o before nigiri, then the accent is Low-high-low-low （onigiri）
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I think I get it... I had heard it pronounced with a high-low-low accent (NI-gi-ri) but most of the pronunciations I hear is low-high-high; I actually like and prefer high-low-low (NI-gi-ri) without the o at the beginning because that's how one of my Japanese friends taught me to say it...and she told me that I would run into many people correcting me yet that's how her family pronounced it; they were from Yokosuka and I lived in Yokosuka many years ago as a US Navy brat and my late father spoke fluent Japanese) ...but I guess I'm ok if I pronounce it with low-high-high accent. Thanx so much for your help!!
are there any resources you can recommend for learning other facets of the Japanese language in greater detail? I have been teaching myself how to read hiragana and katakana, as well as a little kanji. I would guess learning grammar would be next along with learning a wider vocabulary of words and kanji (and their on yomi/kun yomi readings)
You have one of the best You Tube videos for explaining Japanese pitch accent. I hate when Americans say カラオケ as カリオキ or 空手 as カラティ and 酒 as サキ. I look forward to learning more from you.
Thank you for saying that! One of the reason that I picked Karate was that I couldn't make out the word when I heard it for the fist time. I was 16 then and my host father was frustrated and said, "Fumi, it's a Japanese word!!" It was funny😄
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally That is a funny story. Did you live in the US for many years? Your English is so so good. By the way, you picked the perfect words that Americans say incorrectly.
@@rklevens I was in the US just for 11 months when in high school. I'm trying to improve my English because I always find it hard to explain things fully in English. Thank you for saying that my English is good though. うれしいです＾＾
Firstly, i wish you a very happy new year. Hello, I always enjoy your videos and how well detailed they are. I am a professor of linguistics, and I have a quick question regarding the pitch accent of すし. I learned it as an odaka word( LoHi with the following particle dropping). When the honorific particle お is placed before it, I learned the pitch accent as LoHiLo おすし. The Japanese pitch accent dictionary has the same as well. So my question is whether a change is occurring with すし having a HiLo pattern, OR is this because it is always HiLo when the honorific お precedes it? ...just wondering This calls to mind ちち "my own father" which I learned as an odaka word (LoHi with the following particle dropping) that can also be read as an atamadaka word HiLo. I look forward to your thoughts on this. Thank you.
Hi, Josef395san, thank you for your questions. As for すし, NHKアクセント辞典 says it's an odaka word, but 新明解日本語アクセント辞典(second edition) shows the new accent as well, which is atamadaka. And when it comes to おすし, it's always LoHiLo pattern. お changes the pitch accent of a word. And as for ちち, I was surprised to find out that it is odaka in the two dictionaries a few years ago. I'd been saying ちち as atamadaka whole my life and never heard people say the word as an odaka word. But neither dictionary shows the pattern. Josef395-san, I wonder why you asked the question about ちち. Is it because you hear people say the word as atamadaka? Thank you!
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Hello,. Thank you for your reply. Yes, お will alter the pitch accent when placed before nouns. That makes perfect sense. I personally think that ちち as an atamadaka word ( a later development) was on account of the analogy with はは (one's own mother) which is always atamadaka. In some books, ちち is listed as both atamadaka and odaka. In Susumu Nagara;s textbook. "Japanese For Everyone" , (an oldie but goodie that teaches pitch accent),... I do not mean the textbook みんなの日本語... , ちち and すし display only as odaka words. Yes, I have heard people say ちち as an odaka word. I find all of this very fascinating. That is why I tell people that mastery of Japanese pronunciation is much harder than that of Mandarin Chinese and even Korean (which has many rules re: pronunciation) because of pitch accent. Many who do not know Japanese well enough think its pronunciation is not difficult at all, but these same individuals ignore pitch accent.
this is the reason why sometimes my sensei can't understand me.. like when I tried to say the word "歌手” she didn't get it immediately. i need to explain it like "歌う人” hahahaha
You can usually convey what you mean even with the wrong pitch, but sometimes that confuses Japanese people. You made yourself understood anyway, which was great. がんばってくださいね^^
For me as a Swedish speaker, the vowels are pretty easy but pitch accent and some sounds like "z" are harder. I usually say "misu" instead of "mizu" for water for example xD And even though I *know* how to say 雨, I still say 飴 9 times out of 10. I'm blaming my sweet tooth ;)
Mother tongue affects our language learning. I didn't know that it's hard for Swedish people to pronounce z. So you don't have the z sound? Pitch must be difficult. がんばって:)
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You can also subscribe a newsletter from the link above.
The pronunciation is so helpful. It really helps me find the correct way to say these common words in Japanese. I feel more confident!
I'm glad to hear that you feel more confident now! That's what I make videos for.
Thank you for your comment.
Kanichiwa
:)
Thank you, this was very useful! I recently started learning Japanese, and I think in English we are so used to stressing certain sounds in a word. This video was very helping in explaining 'pitch' with Japanese words and its helping me a lot with my pronunciation! :)
I’m glad to hear that!
As English pronunciation is difficult for Japanese people, Japanese pronunciation is hard for English speaking people. I’ll make more videos to help you guys pronounce naturally.
Thank you for your comment:)
This is a good lesson. This young woman is a very good teacher (sensei). Kind and patient. Thank you! 👍😊
Thank you so much for this comment😊
Always wanted to learn a secound language, I've watched a few of your videos and I love your teaching style its super helpful for a complete beginner like myself
I’m glad to hear that.
I’ll make more videos, so ganbattekudasai:)
This is so helpful, explaining vowels , pitch, written language, thanks, arigato.
Glad it was helpful😊
I love the way you teach. Very clear. Thanks a lot
That's so cool!
In my native language (Polish) we actually have very similar sounds, but I never could understand the concept of "Mora", which made it difficult to learn the language.
Thank you for this video.
Hi, I tried to find out what kind of characteristics the Polish has and found your language very difficult. You even conjugate nouns! So interesting... I'm glad you understood the concept of mora. Thank you for your comment
For Polish speakers it's easy to pronounce i.e. sushi just the way it sounds in the original Japanese form. But in casual conversations you're not gonna hear words like "sushi" pronounced this way, instead it will be somehow English influenced version.
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally
Also Polish person here! We use the same sort of sounds for vowels, and our language has consistent pronunciation, unlike English.
We can also pronounce つ, し and ち. For the latter two, we have both the harsher sh/ch sounds like English, but also softer si/ci like Japanese.
The つ sound is literally spelled as cu in Polish. Yeah our c actually has a function that is not copying s and k like in English lol
Our languages are VERY different, but the sounds are quite easy for us once we drop the bad habits from English.
I studied Japanese for a very short while yeeaars ago, so I can't do much beyond reading hiragana and introducing myself haha
Wow! Super useful video, thank you! Especially for the difference between sake and sake! 😀
I'm glad to hear that. Thank you😊
Beautiful and i appreciate your time to make this. I use for homeschooling and I love the way you explain. Infinite blissings & grand health for you and your family
Thank you. I wish you all good luck for your homeschooling:)
Really great! This is a useful video!
Thank you for your comment!
I’m so glad to hear that.
Thank you kindly.
Very good video! Learning japanese from Brazil
From the opposite side of the globe! Thanks😊
Thanks for the video this usage of the words was helpful
thanks for the lesson
Sure! Thanks for watching 😁
ありがとう 🙏🏼
Thank you, I imitated the sounds. 😀
Very helpful, however my search was for nigiri and this video came up; I was a bit disappointed it was not covered in this one. Do you have any of your videos that cover "nigiri"?? Thanx for these helpful videos!
I’m sorry, I don’t have a video that covers nigiri.
The pitch accent of it is Low-high-high, but when you add o before nigiri, then the accent is Low-high-low-low （onigiri）
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I think I get it... I had heard it pronounced with a high-low-low accent (NI-gi-ri) but most of the pronunciations I hear is low-high-high; I actually like and prefer high-low-low (NI-gi-ri) without the o at the beginning because that's how one of my Japanese friends taught me to say it...and she told me that I would run into many people correcting me yet that's how her family pronounced it; they were from Yokosuka and I lived in Yokosuka many years ago as a US Navy brat and my late father spoke fluent Japanese) ...but I guess I'm ok if I pronounce it with low-high-high accent. Thanx so much for your help!!
are there any resources you can recommend for learning other facets of the Japanese language in greater detail? I have been teaching myself how to read hiragana and katakana, as well as a little kanji. I would guess learning grammar would be next along with learning a wider vocabulary of words and kanji (and their on yomi/kun yomi readings)
In that case, how about text books such as genki or tobira?
If you have a chance, compare them and choose the one you like better😄
You have one of the best You Tube videos for explaining Japanese pitch accent. I hate when Americans say カラオケ as カリオキ or 空手 as カラティ and 酒 as サキ. I look forward to learning more from you.
Thank you for saying that! One of the reason that I picked Karate was that I couldn't make out the word when I heard it for the fist time. I was 16 then and my host father was frustrated and said, "Fumi, it's a Japanese word!!" It was funny😄
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally That is a funny story. Did you live in the US for many years? Your English is so so good. By the way, you picked the perfect words that Americans say incorrectly.
@@rklevens I was in the US just for 11 months when in high school. I'm trying to improve my English because I always find it hard to explain things fully in English. Thank you for saying that my English is good though. うれしいです＾＾
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Wow only 11 months, that's very impressive. If you have any questions and I can help, please contact me.
Thank you for the kind offer!! I might contact you.
Wow thank you so much! I always wondered how to pronounce these words correctly in Japanese
Hi, I'm glad to hear that.
Thank you for your comment.
Thank you for your wonderful lesson but I little bit confused😢 you wrote ramen - but pronounced lamen? Or I miss understand 🌸
In romaji, Japanese らりるれろ is written with “r”.
Firstly, i wish you a very happy new year.
Hello, I always enjoy your videos and how well detailed they are. I am a professor of linguistics, and I have a quick question regarding the pitch accent of すし. I learned it as an odaka word( LoHi with the following particle dropping). When the honorific particle お is placed before it, I learned the pitch accent as LoHiLo おすし. The Japanese pitch accent dictionary has the same as well. So my question is whether a change is occurring with すし having a HiLo pattern, OR is this because it is always HiLo when the honorific お precedes it? ...just wondering
This calls to mind ちち "my own father" which I learned as an odaka word (LoHi with the following particle dropping) that can also be read as an atamadaka word HiLo. I look forward to your thoughts on this. Thank you.
Hi, Josef395san, thank you for your questions.
As for すし, NHKアクセント辞典 says it's an odaka word, but 新明解日本語アクセント辞典(second edition) shows the new accent as well, which is atamadaka. And when it comes to おすし, it's always LoHiLo pattern. お changes the pitch accent of a word.
And as for ちち, I was surprised to find out that it is odaka in the two dictionaries a few years ago. I'd been saying ちち as atamadaka whole my life and never heard people say the word as an odaka word. But neither dictionary shows the pattern. Josef395-san, I wonder why you asked the question about ちち. Is it because you hear people say the word as atamadaka? Thank you!
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Hello,. Thank you for your reply. Yes, お will alter the pitch accent when placed before nouns. That makes perfect sense. I personally think that ちち as an atamadaka word ( a later development) was on account of the analogy with はは (one's own mother) which is always atamadaka. In some books, ちち is listed as both atamadaka and odaka. In Susumu Nagara;s textbook. "Japanese For Everyone" , (an oldie but goodie that teaches pitch accent),... I do not mean the textbook みんなの日本語... , ちち and すし display only as odaka words. Yes, I have heard people say ちち as an odaka word.
I find all of this very fascinating. That is why I tell people that mastery of Japanese pronunciation is much harder than that of Mandarin Chinese and even Korean (which has many rules re: pronunciation) because of pitch accent. Many who do not know Japanese well enough think its pronunciation is not difficult at all, but these same individuals ignore pitch accent.
this is the reason why sometimes my sensei can't understand me..
like when I tried to say the word "歌手” she didn't get it immediately.
i need to explain it like "歌う人” hahahaha
You can usually convey what you mean even with the wrong pitch, but sometimes that confuses Japanese people.
You made yourself understood anyway, which was great.
がんばってくださいね^^
For me as a Swedish speaker, the vowels are pretty easy but pitch accent and some sounds like "z" are harder. I usually say "misu" instead of "mizu" for water for example xD
And even though I *know* how to say 雨, I still say 飴 9 times out of 10. I'm blaming my sweet tooth ;)
Mother tongue affects our language learning. I didn't know that it's hard for Swedish people to pronounce z. So you don't have the z sound?
Pitch must be difficult. がんばって:)
Wonderful! What a joy to listen and learn! You are a very kind person, thank you so much! 🥰💮🌸
How do you say, "Godzilla" properly?
I’ll make a very short video about it. Could you wait for a while?
When it’s written it’s ゴジラ.
Sorry it took forever to answer your question.
I uploaded a short video on Twitter.
twitter.com/naturally_speak/status/1347414345471283202?s=21
Thanks from Ukraine:-)
Oh, from Ukraine. I hope you’re well. Thank you 😊
I think I need to learn the vowels first to perfection before I learn the Japanese language so the pitch would be easier for me.
I have a hard time pronounce S vs SH in Japanese. I tried to watch your mouth but could not tell the difference. Thank you
I'm sure this video helps.
th-cam.com/video/WH0UX5oQVzM/w-d-xo.html
Everything sounds the same to me! I want to cry 😅
선생님 스시 먹고싶어요..ㅋㅋ😋
先生、寿司食べたいです..ハハハ😋Teacher, I want to eat sushi..LOL 😋
私もです！😄
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally
함께 가요~😋
一緒に行きましょう~😊
Let's go together~😹
very confuing you say both susi and sushi
Like 🙏🏼
ファズさん、Thank you for leaving a comment for this one too☺️
Heheh I should confuse everyone with Mandarin’s ramen: lāmiàn. 😛
You should 😝
I always love the sound of Mandarin.
I have heard ra a me n so many times in Naruto it's like a second nature to mr
That's a good example that anime can help people learn Japanese! Thank you for the comment!
おはようございますインドの親愛なる奥様
インド means India...
???
How to say Sushi is wrong.
remove hi
= SUS
背景音乐太吵
对不起